Hildebrandt, Katharina (2022) The Effects of Cultural Preferences and Network Diversity on Education Bias. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The education bias, negative attitudes towards a person based on their educational level, is an under researched phenomenon. To understand it further we developed two research questions. First, we examine to what extent differences in cultural preferences explain the education bias between higher and less educated people. Second, we explore how a high or low diversity in the social network of a person effects their education bias. We used a 2x2 experimental design and recruited a sample of high educated people. The education bias was measured by presenting four profiles of fictional individuals to evaluate in terms of the likelihood of befriending them. These profiles represent the different combinations of the levels of the two independent variables, educational level, and cultural preferences. For assessing the diversity of network variables, we used survey questions. The results indicate that education level and cultural preferences significantly influence the profiles' evaluation, but no significant interaction effect between these variables occurred. Network diversity seemed to reduce education bias significantly. There is evidence for the existence of an education bias but that cultural preferences do not moderate this bias. Those participants with higher diversity in their social network showed a lower education bias.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kuppens, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2022 12:11 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2022 15:39 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/318 |
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